diverts

英 [daɪˈvɜːts]

美 [daɪˈvɜːrts]

v.  使转向; 使绕道; 转移; 改变(资金、材料等)的用途; 转移(某人)的注意力; 使分心
divert的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG （使）转向；（使）绕道
  Todivertvehicles or travellers means to make them follow a different route or go to a different destination than they originally intended. You can also say that someone or somethingdiverts froma particular route ortoa particular place.
  1. ...Rainham Marshes, east London, where a new bypass will divert traffic from the A13...
     伦敦东部的雷纳姆泽，那儿有一条新的旁道将会分流 A13 公路的交通
  2. During the strike, ambulances will be diverted to private hospitals...
     在罢工期间，救护车将被转到私人医院去。
  3. We diverted a plane to rescue 100 passengers...
     我们让一架飞机改变航线去营救 100 名乘客。
  4. She insists on diverting to a village close to the airport...
     她坚持改道去机场附近的一个村庄。
  5. The capital remained jammed with diverted traffic.
     尽管实行了交通分流，首都依旧很堵。

in AM, use 美国英语用 detour


• VERB 改变(资金、资源)的用途;转移
  Todivertmoney or resources means to cause them to be used for a different purpose.
  1. The government is trying to divert more public funds from west to east.
     政府正试图将更多的公共基金从西部转到东部。
  2. ...government departments involved in diverting resources into community care.
     负责将资源用于社区保健的政府部门
• VERB 转接(电话)
  Todiverta phone call means to send it to a different number or place from the one that was dialled by the person making the call.
  1. He instructed switchboard staff to divert all Laura's calls to him.
     他让总机接线员将劳拉所有的电话都转给他。
  2. Customers will only incur additional call charges if the call is diverted outside the UK.
     只有当电话被转接到英国之外，客户才会被加收额外的电话费。
• VERB 转移，分散（注意力）
  If you say that someonedivertsyour attention from something important or serious, you disapprove of them behaving or talking in a way that stops you thinking about it.
  1. They want to divert the attention of the people from the real issues.
     他们想要把人们的注意力从真正的问题上转移开。
  2. The President needed to divert attention away from his own economic record.
     总统需要将人们的视线从他以往在经济上的表现上转移开。

双语例句

• The abuse charge focused on accusations that Google diverts traffic from its rivals to favor its own products and services, particularly websites for shopping.
  指控主要集中在指责谷歌从竞争对手分流流量，偏向其自身产品和服务，尤其是购物网站。
• Adopt sth as a hobby or pastime He diverts himself with chess and billiards.
  以某事作为爱好或消遣他下棋和打桌球作消遣。
• There is no need to establish quarantine measures at the border, a measure that diverts resources and may hamper cooperation between institutions and countries.
  没有必要采取边境检疫措施，这种措施会转移资源并可能妨碍各机构和各国家之间的合作。
• To play a game of chess, football, hide-and-seek, etc He diverts himself with chess and billiards.
  下棋、踢足球、捉迷藏他下棋和打桌球作消遣。
• An alternative meaning of'beard'is someone who diverts suspicion from the guilty.
  英语中的“胡子”一词（beard），也指那些引开别人怀疑而逃脱罪名的人。
• A "red herring" diverts attention from the main issue.
  “熏鲱”是指避开主要问题转移注意力的东西或话题；
• He diverts himself with chess and billiards.
  他下棋和打桌球作消遣。
• She often diverts herself in reading novels.
  她常看小说消遣。
• Oil or mineral wealth mostly reduces the population's standard of living because it diverts effort and talent from wealth creation to rent-seeking.
  石油或矿业财富大多使人民的生活水准下降，因为它们把人们的才能和努力从创造财富转移到了寻租上。
• Optimism diverts our attention away from negativism and channcls it into positive, constructive thinking.
  乐观主义能使我们的注意力从消极方面转向积极的、有建设性的思考。